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Flamenco can be a very challenging and technical style, but it doesn't have to be. I don't know your background, but if you just want to have fun and sound good quickly, try this. …

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder These guys went through quite some hardships to define the length of a me…

What I like about nostr is the experimentation with different clients, and the fact that your identity is portable to any of them. It's just a really cool model. I'm working on a n…

I'm working on a nostr-based discussion site that should be (very) familiar to Hacker News users: https://oddbean.com/

> The plant’s introduction to the New World came with European settlers, who brought hops to North America in the 17th century. This is not true. Hops were widespread in North Amer…

While I agree that sheet notation is superior, it actually is fairly common to indicate duration and articulation in tablature, especially classical. See many of the tabs on classt…

Reminds me of the "Bob Wehadababyitsaboy" GEICO commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs

Great article! I have some miscellaneous comments, in no particular order. The digital commitment scheme as described has a subtle vulnerability. Suppose there are two participants…

Easiest way is to Deparse it: $ perl -MO=Deparse tp.pl 'division'->Illegal('zero'->by('at' / 'tmp' / 'quine' . 'line'->pl(1))); tp.pl syntax OK So I believe this is what causes it …

Ahhh, I understand now. Yes, this is an interesting observation. Thanks!

I linked to the paper because it wasn't clear if OP's goal was to increase the security with the cascaded hashes or not, and also because I personally found this result very surpri…

Thanks! Does this attack actually depend on extremely large files in any way? My understanding is that this method can always find fixed-size pre-images for collision attacks, and …

This is not necessarily as secure as you might expect. See Joux's "Multicollisions in Iterated Hash Functions. Application to Cascaded Constructions" https://link.springer.com/cont…

LMDB works like this. The MDB_env struct keeps pointers to both meta pages: https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/blob/30288c72573ceac719627183f1... Which meta-page used is determined by th…

LMDB [0] was derived from this project, as mentioned in its copyright notice section [1]. [0] http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/ [1] https://github.com/LMDB/lmdb/blob/30288c72573ceac7196271…

Very cool, and I like the name! I'd be interested in reading about how Matcheroni compares with PEGTL and Lexy. https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL https://lexy.foonathan.net/

You can also factor integers with Regexp::Exhaustive: https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Exhaustive#Finding-all-divi... And if you're in Toronto in 3 weeks time, come see Abigail (th…

The Inkplate platform is really neat. Sorry to see they shipped yours without the MCP23017. I used one of those pins for my project: https://hoytech.com/tabplate/ But probably some…

I had Dr. Alan Paeth as a university professor for 4 years, one or two classes every semester. I tried to fit my schedule around the classes he was teaching. When you went to his c…

In 2015 I was working at a "fintech" company and a leap second was announced. It was scheduled for a Wednesday, unlike all others before which had happened on the weekend, when mar…

This is also a really fun resource, especially the Verilog book and the in-browser IDE: https://8bitworkshop.com/

I agree, labelled loops are fantastic. I don't know for sure, but I believe the JavaScript feature was inspired by Perl, which has had them since at least the v4 releases (1989-199…

lavarand was invented and patented by SGI in 1996: https://www.lavarand.org/news/lavadiff.html

Also unix talk(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)

Technically true, but Canada exports more tomatoes to the US than it imports. It is the 5th largest tomato exporter in the world. Here's an article about tomato growing in Canada: …